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Updated: June 1, 2025
For the only time in the war Virginia militiamen behaved badly, fled the field, and were a major contributing factor to the disaster. Not only did Gates lose 600 men, many of them battle-hardened Continentals, he lost two outstanding officers, General Jean de Kalb, the tough German officer, and Colonel Edward Porterfield from Virginia.
Porterfield when he comes on to meet her if they keep it up in the same way," said Mrs. Peck. "Oh they'll keep it up, don't you fear!" one of the gentlemen exclaimed. "Dear madam, the Captain's having his joke on you," was, however, my own congruous reply. "No, he ain't he's right down scandalised. He says he regards us all as a real family and wants the family not to be downright coarse."
Good-natured women understand each other even when so divided as to sit residentially above and below the salt, as who should say; by which token our hostess had quickly mastered the main facts: Mrs. Allen's visit that morning in Merrimac Avenue to talk of Mrs. Porterfield at last being ready.
I accosted her, having had no conversation with her amid the crowd of leave-takers and the muddle of farewells before we put off; we talked a little about the boat, our fellow-passengers and our prospects, and then I said 'I think you mentioned last night a name I know that of Mr. Porterfield. 'Oh no, I never uttered it, she replied, smiling at me through her closely-drawn veil.
Porterfield came with us, and, at such times, our business was to detect distant glimpses of barge, or steamboat, as they successively darted into sight, along such of the glittering patches of the Alabama as were revealed to us in its downward progress through the woods.
'All that must have been rather fine I should have liked to hear it, I said. 'And what did you reply? She helped him to pass his time he ought to be immensely obliged. Also that it would be a very happy moment for me too when I should hand her over to Mr. Porterfield. 'And will you come up to-day? 'No indeed she'll do very well now. I gave a sigh of relief. 'All's well that ends well!
At length one of these parties, led by Captains Waggoner and Porterfield, engaged the British flank guard very closely, killed a captain with ten or fifteen privates, drove them out of the wood, and were on the point of taking a field piece. The sharpness of the skirmish soon drew a large body of the British to that quarter, and the Americans were again driven over the Brandywine.
Close behind came Pestler with a tray filled with boxes of candy, and next Sanderson with a flattish basket piled high with carnations, each one tied as a boutonniere; and Porterfield with a bunch of bananas; and so on and so on each arrival being received with fresh roars and shouts of welcoming approval.
The change in Julia, which had even struck this blind old lady, corresponded exactly with the date of Edgerton's arrival. When I saw the earnest tenderness in his countenance as he watched her, while Mrs. Porterfield was speaking, I ceased to feel any sympathy for the intense sadness which I yet could not but see in hers.
Edgerton, who looked so lonesome; and I do assure you I thought at first, from the quantity of writing, that you had given her some of your law-papers to do. The table was covered with it." "Indeed!" said I "this must be looked into. It will not do for the wife to take the husband's business from him. It looks mischievous, Mrs. Porterfield there's something wrong about it."
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